Author: Paramahansa Yogananda
Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers
ISBN: 9780876122396
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In this book Paramahansa Yogananda offers prayers and affirmations that beginners and experienced meditators alike can use to awaken the boundless joy, peace, and inner freedom of the soul. Features more than 300 uplifting meditations, prayers, affirmations, and visualizations as well as introductory instructions on how to meditate.
Metaphysical Meditations (Japanese)
Author: Paramahansa Yogananda
Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers
ISBN: 9780876122396
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In this book Paramahansa Yogananda offers prayers and affirmations that beginners and experienced meditators alike can use to awaken the boundless joy, peace, and inner freedom of the soul. Features more than 300 uplifting meditations, prayers, affirmations, and visualizations as well as introductory instructions on how to meditate.
Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers
ISBN: 9780876122396
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In this book Paramahansa Yogananda offers prayers and affirmations that beginners and experienced meditators alike can use to awaken the boundless joy, peace, and inner freedom of the soul. Features more than 300 uplifting meditations, prayers, affirmations, and visualizations as well as introductory instructions on how to meditate.
Inner Peace
Author: Paramhansa Yogananda
Publisher: Self Realization Fellowship
ISBN: 9780876120101
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"... A compilation of extracts from [the author's] writings, lectures, and informal talks."--Dust jacket.
Publisher: Self Realization Fellowship
ISBN: 9780876120101
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"... A compilation of extracts from [the author's] writings, lectures, and informal talks."--Dust jacket.
Things Japanese
Author: Basil Hall Chamberlain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan
Author: Ian Reader
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113681941X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The Tokyo subway attack in March 1995 was just one of a series of criminal activities including murder, kidnapping, extortion, and the illegal manufacture of arms and drugs carried out by the Japanese new religious movement Aum Shinrikyo, under the guidance of its leader Asahara Shoko. Reader looks at Aum's claims about itself and asks, why did a religious movement ostensibly focussed on yoga, meditation, asceticism and the pursuit of enlightenment become involved in violent activities? Reader discusses Aum's spiritual roots, placing it in the context of contemporary Japanese religious patterns. Asahara's teaching are examined from his earliest public pronouncements through to his sermons at the time of the attack, and statements he has made in court. In analysing how Aum not only manufactured nerve gases but constructed its own internal doctrinal justifications for using them Reader focuses on the formation of what made all this possible: Aum's internal thought-world, and on how this was developed. Reader argues that despite the horrors of this particular case, Aum should not be seen as unique, nor as solely a political or criminal terror group. Rather it can best be analysed within the context of religious violence, as an extreme example of a religious movement that has created friction with the wider world that escalated into violence.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113681941X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The Tokyo subway attack in March 1995 was just one of a series of criminal activities including murder, kidnapping, extortion, and the illegal manufacture of arms and drugs carried out by the Japanese new religious movement Aum Shinrikyo, under the guidance of its leader Asahara Shoko. Reader looks at Aum's claims about itself and asks, why did a religious movement ostensibly focussed on yoga, meditation, asceticism and the pursuit of enlightenment become involved in violent activities? Reader discusses Aum's spiritual roots, placing it in the context of contemporary Japanese religious patterns. Asahara's teaching are examined from his earliest public pronouncements through to his sermons at the time of the attack, and statements he has made in court. In analysing how Aum not only manufactured nerve gases but constructed its own internal doctrinal justifications for using them Reader focuses on the formation of what made all this possible: Aum's internal thought-world, and on how this was developed. Reader argues that despite the horrors of this particular case, Aum should not be seen as unique, nor as solely a political or criminal terror group. Rather it can best be analysed within the context of religious violence, as an extreme example of a religious movement that has created friction with the wider world that escalated into violence.
Things Japanese
Author: Basil Hall Chamberlain
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0893469688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
An erudite voyage through the details and customs of Japanese life. An engaging collection about everything from the abacus to zoology in Japan, designed to preserve knowledge about a society that was modernizing beyond recognition. This book remains an erudite source of information about culture, history, art, religion, and daily life.
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0893469688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
An erudite voyage through the details and customs of Japanese life. An engaging collection about everything from the abacus to zoology in Japan, designed to preserve knowledge about a society that was modernizing beyond recognition. This book remains an erudite source of information about culture, history, art, religion, and daily life.
Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for the Use of Travellers and Others
Author: Basil Hall Chamberlain
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465600582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 791
Book Description
To have lived through the transition stage of modern Japan makes a man feel preternaturally old; for here he is in modern times, with the air full of talk about bicycles and bacilli and "spheres of influence" and yet he can himself distinctly remember the Middle Ages. The dear old Samurai who first initiated the present writer into the mysteries of the Japanese language, wore a queue and two swords. This relic of feudalism now sleeps in Nirvana. His modern successor, fairly fluent in English, and dressed in a serviceable suit of dittos, might almost be a European, save for a certain obliqueness of the eyes and scantiness of beard. Old things pass away between a night and a morning. The Japanese boast that they have done in thirty or forty years what it took Europe half as many centuries to accomplish. Some even go further, and twit us Westerns with falling behind in the race. It is waste of time to go to Germany to study philosophy, said a Japanese savant recently returned from Berlin:—the lectures there are elementary, the subject is better taught at Tōkyō. Thus does it come about that, having arrived in Japan in 1873, we ourselves feel well-nigh four hundred years old, and assume without more ado the two well-known privileges of old age,—garrulity and an authoritative air. We are perpetually being asked questions about Japan. Here then are the answers, put into the shape of a dictionary, not of words but of things,—or shall we rather say a guide-book, less to places than to subjects?—not an encyclopædia, mind you, not the vain attempt by one man to treat exhaustively of all things, but only sketches of many things. The old and the new will be found cheek by jowl. What will not be found is padding: for padding is unpardonable in any book on Japan, where the material is so plentiful that the chief difficulty is to know what to omit. In order to enable the reader to supply deficiencies and to form his own opinions, if haply he should be of so unusual a turn of mind as to desire so to do, we have, at the end of almost every article, indicated the names of trustworthy works bearing on the subject treated in that article. For the rest, this book explains itself. Any reader who detects errors or omissions in it will render the author an invaluable service by writing to him to point them out. As a little encouragement in this direction, we will ourselves lead the way by presuming to give each reader, especially each globe-trotting reader, a small piece of advice.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465600582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 791
Book Description
To have lived through the transition stage of modern Japan makes a man feel preternaturally old; for here he is in modern times, with the air full of talk about bicycles and bacilli and "spheres of influence" and yet he can himself distinctly remember the Middle Ages. The dear old Samurai who first initiated the present writer into the mysteries of the Japanese language, wore a queue and two swords. This relic of feudalism now sleeps in Nirvana. His modern successor, fairly fluent in English, and dressed in a serviceable suit of dittos, might almost be a European, save for a certain obliqueness of the eyes and scantiness of beard. Old things pass away between a night and a morning. The Japanese boast that they have done in thirty or forty years what it took Europe half as many centuries to accomplish. Some even go further, and twit us Westerns with falling behind in the race. It is waste of time to go to Germany to study philosophy, said a Japanese savant recently returned from Berlin:—the lectures there are elementary, the subject is better taught at Tōkyō. Thus does it come about that, having arrived in Japan in 1873, we ourselves feel well-nigh four hundred years old, and assume without more ado the two well-known privileges of old age,—garrulity and an authoritative air. We are perpetually being asked questions about Japan. Here then are the answers, put into the shape of a dictionary, not of words but of things,—or shall we rather say a guide-book, less to places than to subjects?—not an encyclopædia, mind you, not the vain attempt by one man to treat exhaustively of all things, but only sketches of many things. The old and the new will be found cheek by jowl. What will not be found is padding: for padding is unpardonable in any book on Japan, where the material is so plentiful that the chief difficulty is to know what to omit. In order to enable the reader to supply deficiencies and to form his own opinions, if haply he should be of so unusual a turn of mind as to desire so to do, we have, at the end of almost every article, indicated the names of trustworthy works bearing on the subject treated in that article. For the rest, this book explains itself. Any reader who detects errors or omissions in it will render the author an invaluable service by writing to him to point them out. As a little encouragement in this direction, we will ourselves lead the way by presuming to give each reader, especially each globe-trotting reader, a small piece of advice.
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings
Author: René Descartes
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141936061
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy, the MEDITATIONS, first published in 1641, must surely be Rene Descartes' masterpiece. This volume consists of not only a new translation of the original Latin text and the expanded objections and replies, but also includes selected correspondence and other metaphysical writings from the period 1641-49.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141936061
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy, the MEDITATIONS, first published in 1641, must surely be Rene Descartes' masterpiece. This volume consists of not only a new translation of the original Latin text and the expanded objections and replies, but also includes selected correspondence and other metaphysical writings from the period 1641-49.
Celestial Goddesses
Author: Lisa Hunt
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 9780738701189
Category : Goddesses
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
They personify the heavens, and they gave birth to the sun, the moon, and the stars. They had the power to create and restore lives. Now you, too, can nurture and celebrate the feminine divine with the help of Celestial Goddesses. Visualize your own spiritual journey with the aid of twenty original, full-color goddess paintings in this beautiful, hardcover meditation guidebook. From Amaterasu (Japan), whose brother's jealous rampage helped her realize her true beauty, to the creation myth of Mawu (West Africa), each image is accompanied by a description of the symbolism and a guided meditation.
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 9780738701189
Category : Goddesses
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
They personify the heavens, and they gave birth to the sun, the moon, and the stars. They had the power to create and restore lives. Now you, too, can nurture and celebrate the feminine divine with the help of Celestial Goddesses. Visualize your own spiritual journey with the aid of twenty original, full-color goddess paintings in this beautiful, hardcover meditation guidebook. From Amaterasu (Japan), whose brother's jealous rampage helped her realize her true beauty, to the creation myth of Mawu (West Africa), each image is accompanied by a description of the symbolism and a guided meditation.
Japanese Philosophy
Author: H. Gene Blocker
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791490386
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Japanese Philosophy is the first book to assert the existence of a Japanese philosophy prior to Nishida Kitaro in the early twentieth century. Because of Western military and economic dominance since the seventeenth century, the cross-cultural comparison of non-Western philosophy has generally gone in one direction—comparing Chinese, Indian, and other thought systems with Western philosophy. For various reasons, Japanese scholars did not follow the Chinese lead after 1920 in acknowledging that some of their own literary tradition should be classified as "philosophy." In spite of this, the authors argue that it is useful to compare cultures, and that one way of comparing cultures is to compare their philosophies—and therefore that it is worth treating certain parts of Japanese literature as philosophy, especially those parts that are similar to what has long been classified and treated as philosophy in India and China. By doing so, and by providing an overview of Japanese philosophy from the seventh century to the present, the authors contribute to a greater cross-cultural understanding between East and West.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791490386
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Japanese Philosophy is the first book to assert the existence of a Japanese philosophy prior to Nishida Kitaro in the early twentieth century. Because of Western military and economic dominance since the seventeenth century, the cross-cultural comparison of non-Western philosophy has generally gone in one direction—comparing Chinese, Indian, and other thought systems with Western philosophy. For various reasons, Japanese scholars did not follow the Chinese lead after 1920 in acknowledging that some of their own literary tradition should be classified as "philosophy." In spite of this, the authors argue that it is useful to compare cultures, and that one way of comparing cultures is to compare their philosophies—and therefore that it is worth treating certain parts of Japanese literature as philosophy, especially those parts that are similar to what has long been classified and treated as philosophy in India and China. By doing so, and by providing an overview of Japanese philosophy from the seventh century to the present, the authors contribute to a greater cross-cultural understanding between East and West.
Meditation in Christianity
Author: Swami Rama
Publisher: Himalayan Institute Press
ISBN: 9780893890858
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A collection of essays providing seven insightful perspectives on meditation in Christianity.
Publisher: Himalayan Institute Press
ISBN: 9780893890858
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A collection of essays providing seven insightful perspectives on meditation in Christianity.